More details on the Russia-Taliban story One American official had told The Times that the intelligence finding that the Russians had offered and paid bounties to Afghan militants and criminals had been briefed at the highest levels of the White House. Another said it was included in the President’s Daily Brief, a written […]
June 25, 2020 11:00 am
Calls to defund police departments are being made in several states across the nation. There are debates over what the defunding of police would actually look like and concerns about the ramifications of such actions. Those who argue for the removal of funding advocate a redirection of those funds into […]
In early May, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced new changes to Title IX, a federal civil rights law that protects students from discrimination based on their sex. The protection applies to all schools that receive federal funding which is a majority. As recent as 2017, guidelines have been put in […]
Mueller report On Friday, the Justice Department released a slightly-less-redacted version of the Mueller report. Donald Trump was told in advance that Wikileaks would be releasing documents embarrassing to the Clinton campaign and subsequently informed advisors that he expected more releases would be coming… In July 2016, Roger Stone told Trump as well […]
The World Health Organization on Sunday reported the pandemic’s largest single-day increase of confirmed coronavirus cases, with more than 183,000 cases reported in the previous 24 hours. Brazil and the United States contributed the most to the surge in cases. Testing Trump says he told his administration to test fewer people: “Testing is […]
The past couple of weeks have seen unprecedented turmoil in the United States – from coronavirus spikes to massive protests and national conversations about race. This unrest has been mirrored by an uptick in resignations and firings from the top ranks of the Trump administration. In the past 16 days […]
June 16, 2020 12:24 pm
Walter Soriano, a target of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into foreign election interference in 2016, appears to be a key middle-man connecting a network of Israeli hacking and surveillance firms to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and former Trump National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Under the umbrella […]
Coronavirus oversight impeded Inspectors general warned Congress last week that the Trump administration is blocking scrutiny of more than $1 trillion in spending related to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the previously undisclosed letter, Department of Treasury attorneys concluded that the administration is not required to provide the watchdogs with information about the […]
